Once Mikah is satisfied with the amount of affection granted to Willy, he stands upright, his back still turned to Clarissa. Loudly clearing his throat to make sure he has Lucas's attention, he opens up the folder holding an extensive deforestation project covered in ink and brightly colored markings.
When he notices he has Lucas's attention, he uses his eyes to indicate Clarissa's direction, then Miss Masher's as well, before finally speaking up.
"Well, with greetings out of the way, I do actually have work to attend to. Additionally, my boss and I decided we would streamline a few things, and take care of them while you're here as well." Lucas can't ignore the fact that Mikah put such emphasis on not saying Mark's name. Nor the fact he made a point of indicating the stream
Now that he has been granted a juicy bit of gossip, Mikah gives Jonathan a bright smile in thanks. Pausing for a moment, he laughs a bit before Jonathan has a chance to open his mouth."There's no need to apologize, that was a perfectly legitimate question. However, I should get started, the three of us all have our work cut out for us." Answering Jonathan's unspoken thoughts, Mikah raises the heavily laden folder in salute. Afterward, in short order, he marches off to engage in composition battle with a service bot a few feet away.While Lucas had head over to begin his request for organization creation procedures, Miss Masher had wandered off to claim a bench set against the wall, purposely the furthest possible distance away from Clarissa's claimed territory.Diseng
Spurred on by the pending arrival of a known troll, both Lucas and Jonathan have set about their work with far greater focus than they otherwise would have ever considered.Maintaining an impressive pace, they've both made pretty solid progress by the time one of the employee-only doors slowly opens, creaking loudly. There's a low hiss of dissatisfaction, a sourceless grumble, and then the door continues opening a few inches more before shutting faster than it had opened."Ha! The door busted your entrance, Chi!" Feeling the need to be a spoilsport, Lucas can't resist taunting her while facing vaguely in the direction she's probably standing. Which she is, she hasn't exactly had much time to move all that far.Jonathan chuckles alongside Lucas, though Miss Masher is co
As much as they would all love any sort of distraction to offset the monotony of mind-numbing legalese, their collective desires to get everything over with leads to a significant stretch of incredibly uneventful time passing by.As aggressively mentally singing at Mikah proves sufficient to satisfy Miss Chievous's desire for mischief, even she diligently plods through the tedious treeware red tape in a timely fashion.Even though she doesn't have any forms to fill out, Miss Masher has been busy doing her own work. Keeping in mind Mark's earlier estimate of roughly 5,000 square feet of occupiable space, she's started planning out Lucas's gym for him. So considerate.Her line of thought and corresponding notes break down to something along the lines of; Well, just how m
Lucas and Jonathan break out into satisfied smiles in response to the raucous reception, but they hadn't even begun to consider the full ramifications of this little reveal.While it certainly isn't a challenge to find out what organization a given person is associated with, to be so completely blasé about stating such a... Name is a feat. Also, while blatantly displaying as much wealth as they are with the way they are dressed, as well as doing it so publicly and with such a cavalier attitude, they're bound to attract attention from several unsavory types.Well, not exclusively unsavory people, at least. For instance, Mark had the stream playing in the background for amusement while working on something else, and ever since the name was announced, he hasn't stopped laughing yet. Josephine has begun to worry if he's go
Full of regret over not claiming the offered resume sooner, Lucas feels increasingly more and more uncomfortable with every step he takes towards Clarissa. She maintains her frozen stance for a sizable amount of his journey, but once he has gotten close enough that she's pretty sure the angle of her recording is currently lacking, she thaws enough to openly angle her phone upwards to aim at his face.Snorting out a single laugh at her antics, Lucas bites back full-on open laughter at her brazen behavior. Leisurely carrying the clipboard and pen with his right hand, he holds his open left hand out towards her, wearing an amused smirk while looking down at her."Well, as the first officially hired employee, I should at least put your resume on file, yeah?" While Lucas does his best to avoid admitting the fact he just isn't conf
Wiping Mr. Quacks off with the napkin he had previously offered Willy, Jonathan hides his good friend in the same pocket as before. He leaves the ink-stained crumpled-up napkin on the counter, though. Gotta keep up villainous appearances somehow.Satisfied with his contributions, Jonathan takes a few steps off to the side, leaving ample room for the trembling-with-anticipation Clarissa. Who is still recording the proceedings, even now that she is up close.Putting as much thought into his actions as usual, which is almost none, Lucas holds his hand out towards Clarissa."Lemme guess, you want a good shot while you sign too, yeah? Here, I'll hold it for ya." As Lucas makes his offer, Clarissa freezes for a moment, her eyes widening slightly. With a huge smile, she looks
Before Mikah has even made it to the door, Lucas decides he is done with having any sort of audience at all. Turning to look at Clarissa, who is still every bit as excited to be recording him as before, he wrinkles his nose and frowns at her, although only lightly."All right, that's enough fun. I don't know why anyone would want to watch boring paperwork as it is, but whatever, it's not like you were getting in the way. Uhh, I dunno about a dress code or anything yet, but I assume you still have work clothes from your time at uh, whatsit, uh, Howling Cartographer? If not, you have some shoppin' to do missy, no way we're gonna bother with handin' out uniforms. Even if we finalize our... Current agreement for an HQ, it's gonna take some work before it's usable. Probably not gonna need you for well over a week, probably more. I'll let ya know when. Go on now, unless you had somethin'
Trying not to make too big of a deal of Miss Masher's questionable standards, Lucas clears his throat loudly and then finally begins heading for the door."Well, anyway, we should get going, too." Speaking up to get things going once again, Lucas makes a beckoning gesture with his right hand, intending on leading the way.Although, he doesn't make it very far before being stopped."Oh, when I left Calc was still in the back room you guys last saw her in, we should probably go check there for her first. We're better off taking the employee door." When Miss Chievous speaks up to adjust their route, Miss Masher turns to look directly at her face. Pausing for a moment, she seems to determine that her sister's actually being honest, so she turns and starts leading the way t